ubuntu and kvm

[Kevin Fries]

Discover Vagrant and watch your happiness factor go through the roof.  I
don't do VMs any longer without it.  Lately been coupling it with Docker to
build apps for my Kubernetes cluster... swweeeeeeeet!

Kevin
On Jul 31, 2015 8:50 PM, "Amy Nielsen" <amyjoan48 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I got so fed up that I put crunch bang on here instead, and now I can run
> my vm's with both virtual box and vmware.
>
> On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Kevin Fries <kevin at fries-biro.com> wrote:
>
>> I ditched the buntus also about 2 years ago.  Had enough, and Unity just
>> sucks.  Not loving what Gnome has been doing lately to Gnome Shell either.
>> So my latest is Arch, with KDE5 Plasma... KDE started to annoy me, but the
>> activities desktops and yaquake are really starting to make me so much more
>> productive.
>>
>> But, back to the VMs...
>>
>> My company issued me a Windows7 desktop, and in a moment of insanity...
>> gave me admin rights.   I used to run Arch in a VM to do development work
>> in, then ssh'd to the servers.  I discovered MobaXTerm, and it made the
>> entire experience tolerable.
>>
>> Eventually, they issued me a Windows7 VM, and the Windows on my desktop
>> just became redundant.  So I pushed it to the side and installed Arch as
>> the primary booting OS.  For virtualizing Linux processes (i.e. to try out
>> something without polluting my day to day machine) I use Docker
>> Containers.  To run Windows processes, I have dedicated one of my four
>> desktops, on my default activity to Windows.  It runs that VM instance IT
>> set up for me, full screen using rdesktop and SeamlessRDP.  PERFECT!  Now
>> my regular desktop, and VM, are seamlessly integrated.
>>
>> The most fun was when our desktop admin asked me one day to pull
>> something up on my desktop... I knew that meant in Windows, which is on
>> desktop 1, and I was on Desktop 4.  CTRL->ALT->LEFT->UP and snap, I had the
>> desktop up... the screens flipped so quickly our a desktop admin almost got
>> dizzy.  I think he is now afraid of my desktop... ha ha ha ha
>>
>> Good Luck, but to the OP, I would ditch Ubuntu until they get their s
>> together.
>>
>> Kevin
>> On May 14, 2015 1:33 PM, "Nathan England" <nathan at nmecs.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Your experience generally sums up every attempt I've made at making
>>> things work with any of the *buntu versions. I have spent enough time to
>>> get really frustrated with it and eventually go to something else.
>>>
>>> For a short time I was concerned because Fedora was too unstable with
>>> systemd, ubuntu just sucks for everything beyond running from a live disc
>>> (and even that half the time), and openSuSE while awesome would suddenly
>>> crap out after a few reboots. Never really figured that one out and was
>>> really disappointed.
>>>
>>> Finally with Fedora 21 things are stable again. F20 got better later in
>>> its life.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2015-05-13 17:31, Michael Butash wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks for the comments from Stephen and James.
>>>>
>>>> This has unfortunately been a very frustrating experience, having
>>>> tried VirtualBox, KVM, and now even VMware Workstation, just try to
>>>> get something working, and each is fubar for some reason under ubuntu.
>>>>
>>>> Virtualbox always works well, but for some reason won't import the
>>>> disk (some kind of uuid issue reading the disk image).
>>>> KVM packages just seem broken under ubuntu, as does apparmor (as usual).
>>>> VMware Workstation/Player 11 does nothing but give me "permission
>>>> denied" when trying to make a vm as a user, then as root tells me
>>>> there is no space left with 40gb in the volume.
>>>>
>>>> I haven't seen this many f'd up package or app installs under ubuntu
>>>> in a while, though I expect it of VMware - they can't make linux
>>>> clients to save their life.  KVM I was surprised to see it's as much a
>>>> basketcase under ubuntu as it was.  Seems if people use it, they do so
>>>> with the rh variants, for a reason.
>>>>
>>>> All I wanted was a stupid F5 load-balancer virtual appliance to run to
>>>> lab, instead 3 days wasted.  Ugh.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks again all.
>>>>
>>>> -mb
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